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Ball Don’t Lie’s playoff predictions: Miami Heat vs. New York Knicks

Ball Don't Lie Staff, yahoo.com

The 66-game regular season, mercifully, is over. The NBA jam-packed 66 games into a space where 50 usually went, and the result was a strange five-month run that had us talking about rested legs and oddball rotations more than we spoke of learning and g…

Ian Begley, ESPN.com

New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler is battling the flu and could miss Game 1 of the team's playoff series against the Miami Heat on Saturday.

Mike Kurylo, nytimes.com

Free throws could be a deciding factor in the Knicks-Heat playoff series.

Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com

These are proving to be dangerous times for NBA mascots. Two weeks ago, Moondog of the Cleveland Cavaliers briefly went to the hospital after getting clocked in the eye by the Pacers' David West. And this week, the Phoenix Suns Gorilla found himself on …

Benjamin Hoffman, nytimes.com

Looking ahead to the first-round playoff matchups in the Eastern Conference.

Joe, miamiherald.com

WASHINGTON -- It has been 12 long years since the Heat and Knicks met in the playoffs but all that changes on Saturday when second-seed Miami begins its best-of-7 first-round series against eight-seed New York. Udonis Haslem summed up the...

grantland.com

A couple weeks back, the Knicks' Jared Jeffries suggested the Chicago Bulls were a more vulnerable playoff opponent than the Miami Heat. But even in a...